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Sale!Eleven extraordinary stories by eleven extraordinary students. Written and published by students in Year 7 at Nunthorpe Academy, this set of eleven easy to read books aimed at 8 to 10 year olds is the result of a year-long publishing project. 11 Paperbacks, RRP £6.99 each MY STORY SET OF 11 BOOKS SPECIAL PRICE £50 SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER £25 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, June 2018 As featured in an article by Jan Hunter (one of our own!) in the Darlington & Stockton Times, Friday 13th July 2018.
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The story of one man’s descent into a brief period of madness and the surreal world he creates. Stan L. Abbott’s The Episode exudes a realism and fatalistic inevitability, reminiscent of Canetti’s Auto da Fé or John Fowles’s, The Magus. Buy The Episode now or read for free on Kindle Unlimited. Paperback, 656 pages, RRP £14.99 ISBN 978-1-912218-49-3 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, March 2019
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Continuing the tradition started in the summer of 2017, this year’s Crossing the Tees Book Festival launched its second short story competition and once again attracted almost a hundred spectacular entries from local writers. With no specified theme this year, it seemed that everyone’s imaginations were freed to create a richly varied collection of thoughtful and downright entertaining stories. This anthology presents the winner, runners-up, and highly commended stories, as judged by Mike Edwards (writer and performer), Carman Marcus (author) and Carol McIntosh (librarian), as well as the rest of the short-listed entries. “Amazing to see the festival build on last year’s successes and inspire even more people from our region to write such fantastic stories.” Mark Freeman, Stockton Libraries and former Crossing the Tees competition judge
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Music journalist Ben Johansson is living the high life. The luxury apartment in Los Angeles. A beautiful girlfriend. Tickets to any gig in town. He has it all. But his boss isn’t the only one noticing that his writing isn’t what it used to be. And when Ben is handed an unusual assignment back in his hometown of Minneapolis, it’s the last place he wants to go. As he starts to unravel the mystery of a talented young singer-songwriter who died before any of his music could be released, Ben is forced to face the demons of his past. And as he connects with the music in ways he no longer considered possible, maybe it is the one thing that can bring about his redemption…
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The boy Drimble is stuck in a life of violence, abuse and horror. All courtesy of the man Sigismondi. And a disembodied head called the head. Dragged around a shattered world, performing as part of the man Sigismondi’s weird musical routine for a wretched populace in the fetid music halls that offer the only entertainment left, Drimble takes his punishment, all the while never uttering a single word. But he hangs on… until, eventually, escape beckons. The third novel from world-unrenowned, non-award winning author, Graeme Wilkinson, Lost At The End Of The World is a post-apocalyptic Oliver Twist. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder just how on earth you lived without this book in your life. Paperback, 210 pages, RRP £10 ISBN 978-1-908299-99-4 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, April 2017
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In the summer of 2017, the Crossing the Tees Book Festival invited local writers to enter its first short story competition. With the theme, ‘Crossing the Tees’, the competition struck a beautiful chord and elicited almost a hundred entries that varied from whimsical ponderings to poignant memories, from fantastical tales to gritty commentaries on life in Teesside.
This anthology celebrates the winner, runners-up, and highly commended stories, as judged by Becci Sharrock, John Nicholson and Mark Freeman, as well as the rest of the short-listed entries.
“Brilliantly written creative reimaginings of a region rich in writing talent.” Tracey Iceton, Writer in Residence
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Harvey Duckman presents the first in a series of collected works of suspense and mystery in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunkery by exciting new voices in speculative fiction... Order Harvey Duckman Presents... now in paperback or for Kindle. Paperback, 252 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-912218-54-7 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, April 2019
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Available now in paperback or Kindle.
The stunning new Regency romance novel from the author of The Blade and The Dove, and Echoes of the Stones. Feisty heroine Charis Waverley finds herself thrust from the elegance of 1815’s London Society, to the wild and charismatic North Yorkshire coast.
Paperback, 294 pages, RRP £9.99
ISBN 978-1-912218-53-0
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Another six adventures featuring Boro’s greatest detective. When Sherlock Holmes is pulled from Flat 1B, 22 Baker Street, to be thrown into Holme House prison, his only hope of release sits squarely on the shoulders of Doctor John Watson. As Watson does his utmost to free his friend, he becomes wracked with uncertainty. Does he really know Holmes? Is Holmes innocent of the crime? Can he get him out? Of course he can… otherwise this would be a very short book. Volume 2 sees our heroes embroiled in more intriguing mysteries. Armed only with logic, deduction and copious amounts of alcohol, they investigate the cases that have the police of Middlesbrough perplexed, edging slowly closer to a final confrontation with destiny. Who is the mysterious Professor and what are his plans for our Holmes? Paperback, 282 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-908299-96-3 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, November 2016
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What if Sherlock Holmes, with his dry wit and natural predilection for data, deduction and logic, had been born on Teesside and lived in present-day Middlesbrough? This smart-arse Boro lad hides his talents under a bushell of misdirection, self-deprecation and good old Teesside sarcasm, served up with some rather coarse language. With the assistance of his associate, Doctor John Watson, a psychologist he met during some court-ordered counselling sessions, Holmes wends his way through a string of adventures, baffling and entertaining as he goes, with many a three-pint problem solved over his favourite libation, a pint of Engineer’s Thumb in the Twisted Lip, before he staggers back to Flat 1B, 22 Baker Street, Middlesbrough. Paperback, 238 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-908299-81-9 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, November 2015
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Flying around the lush green lands of New Zealand is one thing… the Saudi desert, now that’s something else. With my adventures down under leaving me stony broke, an offer of lucrative work in the Middle East was just too tempting. And so I started a new escapade in a land where you can get arrested for eating a sandwich, rub shoulders with Arab princes at the Grand Prix and the only alcohol is black market home brew. Once again, I was flying by the seat of my pants. Paperback, 226 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-912218-11-0 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, November 2017
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There are times in your life when you start to wonder what it’s all about. With me, I already had plans to up sticks and go, and when one of my neighbours died in a fire, I decided that was it… a new life in New Zealand beckoned. And so began my adventure. It’s funny how things work out… how one thing leads to another… and before I knew it, I was broke, stoned and flying by the seat of my pants around that lush green country on the far side of the world. Paperback, 216 pages, RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1-908299-84-0 Published by Sixth Element Publishing, December 2015
